It has been our tradition to go out of town during new year’s day if we are here in the metro. We are doing this to avoid too much smoke from the fire crackers especially since we have a kid. Tagaytay has always been the place where we usually stay although we also tried Cavite once at the Island Cove. That’s why we are now searching for another place in Tagaytay to stay. Hopefully it will be one with a pool equipped with pool heat pumps .

The best restaurant for me  will depend on many factors. It may not be enough to just be a nice place with nice basement tiles and great furniture. It should also be  cozy and easy to visit and has easy parking space. Most of all, the foods served should taste great. It will help if it’s priced value for money and waiters are friendly. Combine all of these and that’s Abe for me. Foods in Abe’s menu are just simple and classic for me but they all taste good. While not priced cheap, I think they’re worth the price. Their waiters are also friendly but I can’t give them a perfect score yet.

Flash floods brought by tropical storm Sendong made some places in Mindanao and Visayas submerge in more than 10 to 12 feet of water. This also affected some of the government offices in the said places.  Maybe this is already the right time for every office of the government handling some important documents to have their scanner software to at least to take good care of the important documents of the people. Just having them computerized may no longer be enough. As we saw in the news computers are also submerged in water and I’m not sure if they can still recover their records.

Our sympathy to the thousands of families affected by the recent storm that hit Mindanao provinces and some parts of Visayas, especially to those who lost their  love ones in this tragedy. As we saw those images that came out in the news, hundreds of bodies were just lying everywhere. These are men, women and children. There are still  bodies discovered dead after three days of that tragedy. As we all know, this is not nice to smell even your Black and Mild cigarette cannot  help apart from the fact that these are sad sights to see. We can only hope that they will be given a decent burial.

I remember the time when I was still a little boy. My grandfather used to manage a band. This was why we have a small stage in our dining room during that time as it was where his band members used to practice. They used to play in some events and fiestas because the sound system then was not yet used. We used to have different musical instruments then but as the years had gone by and band members grew old, those also  retired. The only instrument left was with my uncle. He was a lead guitarist during that time and I remember it was his Fender Jaguar classic guitar. Until now he would still play with it once in a while.

“I’m sorry, my fault, I forgot you were an idiot.”, “I don’t have a license to kill. I have a learner’s permit.”, ”Where there’s a will… I want to be in it.” , “Alcohol and calculus don’t mix. Never drink and derive.”,  and  “My Dog Can Lick Anyone.” These are just some of the  quotes printed in some funny t shirts I saw. Almost anything you have in mind can now be expressed by printing them on your t shirts. But hopefully people can be responsible, just as in some social networking site twitters should also be responsible on what you want to express. We have to make sure what you express are still within the bounds of decency and will not hurt others’ feelings.